NSAIDs Raise Death Risk post-MI

As the dust continues to settle on the Vioxx issue, there is naturally a desire to look further at potential cardiovascular risks associated with COX-2 inhibitors and, indeed, other non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. Gunnar Gislason from Bispebjerg University Hospital has been leading a study aiming to look throughout Denmark for a relationship between the use of these drugs and mortality in people who have had a myocardial infarction.
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